Notice from the Gallery




Exhibition of HIDEKI NAKAZAWA


  • Period: Wednesday, May 26 to Monday, June 14, 1999. Closed on Tuesday.
  • Time: 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (Until 6:00 p.m. on the last day.)
  • Admission free.
  • Contents: Installation using go as an art work and CG prints which use letters or inflection points as picture elements. (Light box, kinetic light panels, etc.)


    Hideki Nakazawa, who is very active in various fields, gained public favor at the former exhibition held in 1997, which happened to be his first solo exhibition as an artist, where he displayed printed CG works using letters or inflection points as picture elements.
    Standing on his experience of developing CG software, he put a question what were colors or forms in art. This time he presents a model of "a battle between two monarchs" as one of the conclusions. In other words, he presents go, a game of enclosing one's territory, as a form of a picture. For the battling two, the act to change go stones (atoms of colors) which have no meaning individually into meaningful lines (idea of forms) by linking is "a demand for incarnation." Flying high from there, he nears the ontology of art by showing how just color materials can be called an art work.

    At the opening (from 6:00 p.m. on May 26), there will be recitations of sound poetry in the Japanese hiragana and the Hangul alphabet.
    And a technical new work will be displayed in the 5F Space, titled "Device for indicating coordinate spaces & Three-dimensional gobang," which is based on the idea of a substantial 3D display whose patent is now pending.

    His book "Western Artists' Biographies" by NTT Shuppan will start to be published on his solo exhibition day.



    Gallery NW House
    NW House 1F, 1-3-7 Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 169-0051
    GALLERY(TEL)03-3204-0246/OFFICE(TEL&FAX)03-3943-5133
    ---Four minutes on foot from "Waseda" station on the subway Tozai line. --- One minute on foot from the bus stop "Nishi-Waseda." Take a bus for "Sodai Seimon-mae" from JR "Takada-no-baba" station.


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